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uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:19 AM May 2020

Looks like there's a pattern of the police going after the press in multiple cities

Looks like there's a pattern of the police going after the press in multiple cities

I don't see how this is supposed to help their cause

Looks like there's something bigger going on, this ain't the run-of-the-mill unrest

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Looks like there's a pattern of the police going after the press in multiple cities (Original Post) uponit7771 May 2020 OP
"The enemy of the people." RandySF May 2020 #1
+1, I wouldn't put it past Red Dawn to kick off all of this uponit7771 May 2020 #2
I was just thinking that lapfog_1 May 2020 #3
And notice how now there's no more talk Lars39 May 2020 #4
Is the mayor afraid that the police won't comply with an arrest warrant? jaxexpat May 2020 #6
Been noticing that. 2naSalit May 2020 #5
The LEO that flashed the sign is on camera too ... These guys are brazen uponit7771 May 2020 #8
Well they are following their leader malaise May 2020 #7
Here's an example Takket May 2020 #9

lapfog_1

(29,199 posts)
3. I was just thinking that
Sun May 31, 2020, 04:30 AM
May 2020

for three days the police sort of let "protesters" do what they want... which is to say that most protesters went home after night fall and looters came out to smash and grab AND some right wing infiltrators tagged along to escalate the violence. Now, all at once in cities across the nation we have the cops becoming highly militarized, flashing "white power symbols" and possibly aided by armed white supremacists, attacking the peaceful protesters before nightfall and attacking journalists at will. Police INSTIGATING the violence.

Coordinated across the country.

jaxexpat

(6,818 posts)
6. Is the mayor afraid that the police won't comply with an arrest warrant?
Sun May 31, 2020, 07:07 AM
May 2020

Could be that white politicians are all just cowards. Yeah, they know right from wrong. But do they have enough conviction in the power of justice to lead? It's a spine thing. Brain on one end, ass on the other.

malaise

(268,949 posts)
7. Well they are following their leader
Sun May 31, 2020, 07:09 AM
May 2020

when the police attack the press, you've got a problem.

By the way the idea of cops for the Con is frightening

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